When Tweeden made her accusations, Franken said he did not remember the kissing incident - in which Tweeden said he stuck his tongue down her throat as they rehearsed a USO skit - in the way that she did. "Just that he would continue to dismiss and put the allegations down", she said. Franken said the accusation is "categorically not true, and the idea that I would claim this as my rig... [Full Article...]

Copies of the Duma statement were sent to the IOC, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), UNESCO, the Russian Olympic Committee (ROS) and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency. Multiple requests for comment from the International Olympic Committee were not returned. The Russian boss of fencing's ruling body has attacked the ban on his country's flag at the Pyeongchang Games as contradicting "the principl... [Full Article...]

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will move its embassy there, breaking with longtime U.S. He also hailed the Turkish president's initiative to hold an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul to discuss the Palestinian issue, saying Iran has accepted the invitation to atte... [Full Article...]

Getty officials said both museums will reopen Friday. Footage shot from inside a vehicle on the 405 showed the fire rolling down a hillside, as if hell itself had appeared in Southern California. The exception to the evacuation order was the Bel- Air Crest housing development, which was not threatened, according to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. [Full Article...]

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that police properly obtained Brendan Dassey's confession and he should remain behind bars. In her dissent, Chief Judge Diane P. The 7th Circuit said in a 39-page ruling that although it was not unreasonable to debate whether Dassey's confession was voluntary, as the state court ruled, their finding was reasonable. [Full Article...]

President Donald Trump. The nation's deal with the European Union would cover a combined market as large as the North American Free Trade Agreement. Both sides agreed to an outline of the deal back in July and hope to put it into effect in early 2019. "The agreement should remove long standing tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade", BusinessEurope's director general Markus Beyrer said in a... [Full Article...]

Vonn told CNN she took the Olympics and "what walking under our flag means in the opening ceremony" very seriously. As a prolific American athlete, Vonn's disapproval of Trump coinciding with her patriotism, which is focused on the people of the USA and not its leader, shouldn't be overlooked. [Full Article...]